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Re: [Devel] Mac font files


From: Tom Kacvinsky
Subject: Re: [Devel] Mac font files
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:30:52 -0400 (EDT)

That is what I meant -- the decoder would care take of making a PFA file
from the LWFN file, and present the PFA file to freetype.  There are
Macintosh specific additions to FreeType.  Just van Rossum wrote those,
and they are in the CVS tree.  BUt one has to be on a Mac for those to be
useful.

Tom

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 10:49 AM 9/4/2001 -0400, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >I suppose
> >that if one were to write a MacBinary, binhex, or raw resource decoder, one
> >could get the mac font files over to a non-Mac platform and use that decoder
> >to get things loaded into the necessary FT structures.
>
>          This all assumes that the FT has an x-platform resource manager
> (or at least enough of one to be able to read the resources out on a
> non-Mac platform).
>




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